The agreement provides for the construction of a three-thousand-kilometre pipeline from Kazakstan to the west of China.
Nor can the resistance rely on external support as it used to when the West, South-East Asia and China united to oppose the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia.
Despite the fact that for the best part of two centuries China came to suffer hugely at the hands of the West, and to lag badly behind the West, the Chinese never stopped believing in themselves.
The great task facing the West over the next century will be to make sense of China - not in our terms but in theirs.
While Apple is having to apologize for the poor quality of its maps in the West, it is clearly superior to Google Maps in China.
This is the kind of commitment to Darfur that the West has been urging on China for years.
More than 260 of the injured were taken to the city's West China Hospital, where 202 remained as of Tuesday.
No developed world government can afford to claim this because the west simply cannot make its own goods anymore and borrows much of its money from China just to buy the things it needs from China.
In the absence of adequate military supplies from the West, the two non-communist factions of the resistance have been compelled to seek aid from China and to join an unpalatable tripartite arrangement known as the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK).
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And if the core economies of the West do worse than expected, China policy makers will have to act faster than they have so far at lowering interest rates or providing stimulus where needed unless China slip into even lower growth.
This isn't a story of the West losing out to China, because both will continue to profit in Africa.
Expect more of China's online characteristics to be adopted in the West.
All this can be seen as a direct challenge to the long dominant software and entertainment industries of the West, heretofore largely unchallenged by China.
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Where once the West relied on China's lack of environmental enforcement to tamp down rare-earth prices and implicitly subsidize high-tech goods, in the future the nature of the subsidy will change so that China's cheap(er) labor will subsidize Western mid-tech goods.
The sage's popularity in the West still owes more to Hollywood, source of much American soft power, than China's own efforts.
But in fact, there are a number of China tech startups innovating in areas unbeknownst to many in the West. (Virtual goods, which originated in Asia, is a good example.) YY Inc.
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Draw a circle around the central city of Mandalay with a radius of just over 700 miles (1, 100km), he writes, and it stretches to the states of West Bengal and Bihar in India, to Yunnan and Sichuan provinces in China, as well as to Tibet, and south to cover most of Laos and Thailand (see map).
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Mr Schwarzman said he hoped to foster "a win-win relationship of mutual respect" between China and the West.
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They cite further evidence of double standards: having exported its dirtiest industries to China, the West wants the country to curb its carbon emissions, potentially impeding its growth and depriving newly well-off Chinese of their right to a motor car.
At the same time, diplomats have been able to point to the sort of progress diplomats point to: a series of Security Council resolutions, supported by Russia and China as well as the West, telling Iran to stop its uranium-enriching centrifuges.
"Traditional recruitment processes, as they are understood in the West, only really started to be used in China after 1978, with the gradual liberalizing of China's economy, " said Mike Tims, the Asia, Middle East and Africa president at global human-resources consultancy SHL Group Ltd.
The West's present policy towards China an attempt to absorb its energies in the building of the global economy is a perfectly sensible way of trying to minimise the danger, but it is not guaranteed to work.
They have done so partly because they see that rescuing Russia's economy requires close economic links to the West, but also because they are rightly nervous about the growing power of their great eastern neighbour, China, and want a western neighbour they can turn to for help if necessary.
China's efforts to improve coal supplies include the building of a new east-west passenger railway line, set to open in 2013, which should free existing tracks for coal transport.
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According to state media reports the director has said he is pulling the films because of bias in the West against productions from communist China.
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Unlike the manufacturing industry in the West that gave birth to a middle class of both white-collar and blue-collar workers, manufacturers in China mostly absorb surplus labor from rural areas with few skills.
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For example, after a severe drought in the Sichuan and Chongqing sections of the Yangtze River in 2006, tens of thousands of unemployed farmers moved to Xinjiang in China's far west to pick cotton.
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It has long been assumed that as China's market evolved, it would come to look more like the West with the legitimacy of Chinese companies hinging on their own accounts rather than their ties to the government.
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